Property market
The five-year median is £246,500 from 8 recorded sales in WV16 4BB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Shropshire is £284,036 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.
WV16 4BB
Bridgnorth Castle · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bridgnorth
- Ward
- Bridgnorth Castle
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV16 4BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 4
- Latitude
- 52.532803
- Longitude
- -2.417117
- British National Grid easting
- 371,802
- British National Grid northing
- 292,851
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Bridgnorth Castle · E05016019
- Parish or community
- E04011228
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00146835
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 031A · E01028830
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 031 · E02006011
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore WV16
Property
26 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside, 39, Underhill Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4BB | 16 April 2024 | £320,000 |
| 9, Underhill Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4BB | 18 March 2024 | £180,000 |
| Holly Tree Cottage, 11, Underhill Street, Bridgnorth, WV16 4BB | 3 March 2023 | £265,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 2
- 584 m
Bridgnorth Endowed School
Academy converter
- 685 m
Oldbury Wells School
Academy converter
- 710 m
St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 829
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 308
- Criminal damage and arson 86
- Anti social behaviour 85
- Shoplifting 70
- Public order 68
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- WV16 4 residents
- 6,635
16 female, 26 male
Age bands in WV16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.2%
773 residents
557 residents
1,257 residents
2,041 residents
2,098 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV16 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 9.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 9.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 9.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 60.5%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
BRIDGNORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NORTHGATE, BRIDGNORTH, WV16 4EN
ODS code M82004
690 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 6.1 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.1 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.5 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 6.6 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 6.6 miles
Southfield
BCT · Sutton Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 031A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,755 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 8
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 2 secondary schools. Bridgnorth Endowed School is the nearest published school at 584 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
829 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 308 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.